We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.
Do we have to be rail thin to possess 'outer beauty' and sex appeal and to be capable of attracting lovers?
It's so easy to be pretty and perfect.
One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real life it's not always like that.
I'm not built like a leading man.
When you strive for perfection, you compare different versions of what could be instead of being present with what is. Perfectionism is an attempt to inhabit an imaginary world in order to avoid experiencing the world in which you live.
I want my models to be bigger, stronger and taller than common mortals. I need superwomen and supermen.
The illusion of perfection is an illusion anyway.
